jess bravin from the wall street journal will join us. back in a moment. ♪ [music break] [laughter] [applause] this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> stuart couch, if you could, talk to us about your decision to tell your superiors you did not feel you could prosecute this case because of the issues of possible torture? >> well, juan, it was sort of an incremental thing. i was receiving this information from a criminal best to gator that he was bleeding from his unofficial sources. after setting the tone-setting the u.n. torture provision, i found was an article that said any evidence derived as a result of torture was inadmissible in any proceeding. and so i was trying to figure out, ok, what is any proceeding? as i could tell from the source material behind you and torture convention, i came to the legal conclusion that included a military commission as we were conducting them at that time under the order of november 2001. i then turned to the ethical concern about